Hello loyal friends and followers. We know how much you have missed us and longed for our return. Well, wipe away those tears cause we are working our way back and will soon be there to guide you through every thing that is cool again.

Life has kicked our asses a bunch this past year, but Nataly and I are hopping back on the vegan saddle to bring you what you so desire. We can’t be held down!

Bear with us as we get our shit together, and we will be bringing you plenty of content shortly.

Love and grease,

Andrea

11-9 The Blow- FUC

11-11 The Morning Benders- FUC

11-12 Maserati- KNT

11-16- Azure Ray/ Tim Fite/ James Husband- JB

11-17- Bear In Heaven-JB

11-21 Terror/ Mindset/ Wrong Answer- BARB

11-26- Kurt Vile and The Violators- JB

9/28-Swans @ TROC

9/29-The Books and Black Heart Procession @ TROC

9/30-Stars and Wild Nothing @ TROC

9/30-Margot and The Nuclear So and Sos@ FUC

10/3-Born Ruffians @ JB

10/4-The XX, Warpaint and Zola Jesus @ MT

10/7-Octopus Project and Starfucker @ KFN

10/12-The Thermals, Cymbals Eat Guitars and Post Post @ FUC

10/13-Deerhunter @ SB

10/15-The Extraordinaires @ JB

10/16-Samiam and The Casting Out @ BARB

10/22-Making Time with The Drums and Surfer Blood @ VN

10/24-Matt and Kim @ SB

10/25- Marnie Stern @ KFN

10/27-Crocodiles @ JB

10/27-Local Natives @ TROC

10/30-Phantogram @ JB

Key

FUC-First Unitarian Church

TROC-Trocadero

BARB-The Barbary

VN-Voyeur NIghtclub

MT-Merriam Theater

JB-Johnny Brenda’s

KFN-Kungfu Necktie

SB-Starlight Ballroom

For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health I go to shows at The Church. I go when I am broke. I go when I don’t even have tickets. I go when I feel like shit. But there is nothing in those vows that says anything about enduring the ungodly sweltering hell of a church basement.

I get it. It’s punk. It’s cool. No air conditioning. Sweaty, hipster-punks moshing to Blacklisted or bopping to Passion Pit (before they got too cool and moved to the Mann Center). But sometimes I wonder if I will come out of the show alive. I think it might be a legitimate health risk to not have air conditioning in The Church. Maybe only a health risk for us elderly folks but a risk all the same.

The fact that I have yet to see someone pass out at a summer show at The Church is quite miraculous. I’ve seen fights, making out, drugs, weird dudes in weird hats and half naked girls but never heatstroke. I might be the first.

The fans, they so kindly provide, just don’t cut it. Sure, if you are lucky enough to stand directly in front of it you can catch a soft breeze but the people around you will give you dirty looks for hogging the breathable air. Otherwise, the fans just stir the oppressive air around.

Maybe I’m just not punk enough. Maybe I’m too old. But a vow is a vow, and till death do us apart. And death might just do The Church and I apart when I sweat my skin off at the next show.

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Philadelphia live music is being put at risk! A new bill, (Bill No. 100267), being introduced by City Councilmen Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee, will literally change the face of the Philly live music scene as we know it. You can read the actual bill here http://webapps.phila.gov/council/attachments/10044.pdf.

Basically the bill would require all show promoters to apply for a permit with the Philadelphia police 30 days before each show. Think of the shear number of permits that would be for places that have nightly or even weekly live shows. The permit would include detailed information about the event including security measures, expected turnout, business license number, even a copy of the contract between promoters and performers.

As you can see this would be devastating for promoters. It would put an end to last minute shows, changes in line-ups, changes in venue and hinder shows as non-profit events.

What’s really scary is that police can deny a permit up until 10 days before an event for whatever reason they see fit.

So as you can see, we need your help in getting the word out about this bill. You can make yourself heard by writing to the city council. PhillyMetal.com has a simple form you can fill out to send a protest e-mail to City Council President Anna Verna and the Councilmen who introduced the bill, Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee. http://phillymetal.com/protest/ .

Or you can sign the protest here http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/bill100267/

Here is a link to The City Papers article about the bill http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/05/13/a-million-stories

Thanks for your help! Spread the word.

Download Blur’s new track “Fool’s Day” for free from their site. http://www.blur.co.uk/

The track is a modern take on the classic Blur sound and feel. Recorded for limited edition sale on vinyl in the UK. It’s now available here for your listening pleasure!

Sea of Cowards is not a neat little package of an album. In fact it seems to be pulling at the threads left by The Dead Weather’s debut album Horehound, but this only makes it that much more appealing. Jack White and his second super group manage to take their mad scientist approach to blues-rock a step further in this album. Sea of Cowards doesn’t house radio hits or sentimental sing-a-longs, but it manages to contain a shit ton of attitude, frustration and unedited in your face rock’n’roll.

Alison Mosshart (VV of The Kills) sounds more at home in this album. “The Difference Between Us” fits her like a black leather fingerless glove. She then pushes the boundaries with no apologies in “Gasoline.” Mosshart and White share the floor each respectfully out for blood.

Not to be over looked is Queens of the Stone Age’s own, Dean Fertita (also toured with The Raconteurs) who’s guitar and keyboards set the tone for the albums ménage-a-trois of pop, blues and psycadellic rock.

This is definitely the darkest and most raw of White’s recent projects. For some it may feel unfinished and self-indulgent. To others it will feel honest, dirty and daring. It all depends on if  you like your music shaken or stirred.

Sea of Cowards will be released tomorrow (May 11, 2010).